After looking at the built-in quicken backup process, it looks like if I tell quicken to do a backup it just copies 9 specific files to a desired location. My questions are, if I copy these 9 files by other means to a safe location am I accomplishing the same thing? Is the restore process, simply replacing these copied files to their original location? Are there any other steps necessary for a restore?
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cjcoates
Yes, I believe it is "almost" the same. If you use backup and you need to use that backup, you must "restore" the files to their original locations. If you copy (as I do) to a flashdrive or whatever you want, you just copy the files back to where they belong. It should be a much easier process.
I don't think you have to manually move the files back to the directory they came from. You just open Quicken and choose to restore from the backup. And then Quicken creates new working files in the working directory. I'm pretty sure that's what it does. It's been a while since I've had to restore, tho.
Hi, Chris.
In early versions, Quicken's Backup included a compression function, so the files could not be used except by Quicken's matching Restore process. For the several most-recent versions, files created by Backup are the same as those created by Quicken's Copy - or by Windows outside Quicken. So, if you can point (or browse) to the complete group of files in a single folder, you should be able to Restore them. (I've never split backups among multiple floppies; I don't know what effect that has on the ability to Restore.)
You said 9 files? My system shows only 5 or 6. The number varies with the way YOU use Quicken, but I haven't heard of anyone having 9 files in their Quicken fileset. You must be a power user! ; After looking at the built-in quicken backup process, it looks like if I
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